Bradley International Airport – June 4, 1984

On June 4, 1984, a Learjet 23, (N101PP) left Lorain County Airport in Ohio with scheduled stops at Cleveland, Syracuse, N.Y., Bradley International Airport, and then on to Philadelphia. At 11:40 p.m., as the plane was making its final approach to Bradley, it veered to the right and crashed in a massive fireball to the right of Runway 33, about 1,000 feet from the airport fire department. All three people aboard were killed.

The dead were identified as:

(Pilot) Charles Huffman, 32, of North Canton, Ohio.

(Co-pilot) Ronald Dulay, 26, of Lakewood, Ohio.

(Passenger) Eldridge Sheetz, 71, of Warsaw, Indiana.

The cause was blamed on a malfunction of the wing spoiler system which led to a loss of control.